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Mary Barnes Smith - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, May 15, 1964

Mrs. Mary Barnes Smith

Mrs. Mary Barnes Smith died Thursday, May 7th in Madison Parish Hospital, after a short illness. 
She had made her home here with her daughter, Mrs. G. R. Whetstone and Mr. Whetstone since they moved 
to Tallulah from Woodville, Miss. in 1939. Mrs. Smith loved the people in Tallulah and had a host of 
friends here.

Services were held here, at the Tallulah Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Dan Lott officiating, at 
one-thirty in the afternoon, May 8th. Interment was in Woodville, Miss. Cemetery at four-thirty, with 
the family and a large group of friends from Tallulah and elsewhere attending. The Rev. Wesley Toal, 
Episcopal minister of Woodville, officiated at the graveside services.

Active pallbearers were: J. H. Babers of St. Francisville, La., Ben Burnside of Newellton, La., 
L F. Hamrick, Greenwood, Miss., Barton Sevier, Malcolm Sevier, Andrew Yerger and from Port Gibson, Miss. 
C. Y. Katzenmier and A. A. Batton.

Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. L. J. Clark, Vicksburg, Miss., Mr. Phil Thornton, Charleston, Miss., 
Mr. Offie Blayloch, Charleston, Miss., H. L. Phares, Woodville, Miss., O. W. Catchings, Woodville, Miss. 
and from Tallulah, Dr. B. G. Trosclair, Mr. Wm. Powell, Mr. Ed. Yerger, Mr. Maxwell Yerger, Mr. George Yerger, 
Mr. W. P. Sevier, Mr. Harvey Mounger.

Mrs. Smith was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was the wife of the late Alexander Penny Smith 
of Clarksdale, and upon his death, Mrs. Smith successfully continued his insurance business until her 
retirement. Her family was a pioneer family of Tallahatchie County, Miss., coming to Charleston from 
Albermarle County, Virginia in 1822. 

She was a past president of the Charleston Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. Like many ladies of her era, she wrote poetry, and paid tribute to the people of 
Tallulah in a beautifully expressed poem, published in the Journal some five years ago.